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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01408	Certaine vvorkes of chirurgerie, nevvly compiled and published by Thomas Gale, maister in chirurgerie	Gale, Thomas, 1507-1587.	1563 (1563)	STC 11529; ESTC S102805	174,088	538

taught the fishers suche medicines as myghte redilye bee prepared and I sayde they myghte aptly vse it bothe with olde oyle honnye turpentyne and suerelye experience shewed all these so to bee Also I haue not a fewe tymes with thys medicine of Sulphure mixed with Turpentyne healed Scabbes Mentagra Leprye for it cleanseth all suche diseases doeth not repell them into the inward parts where as diuers other medicines whiche cureth these sickennesses haue a mixed propertie that is to saye they doe bothe digest also dryue backe Hetherto Galene of Sulphure Nowe let vs heare him of Nitrum Lib. eodem called with vs vsuallye Saltpeter Nitrum sayeth he is in a meane in strengthe betwixte Aphronitrum and Salte But beynge combuste it goeth nearer the nature of Aphronitrum for by vstion it is made of moore subtile and thynne partes Therefore it doeth drye and digest And if it be taken inwardlye it doeth cutte and extenuate gross and slymye humours muche moore then Salte Aphronitrum excepte great necessitie inforseth is not to bee taken inwardlye because it hurteth the stomacke and doeth extenuate moore then Litrum Truly a certayne rustical man vsed Nitrum as a remedy against suffocation or choking when anye had eaten Moushromes they cal them in Latyne fungos and it euer profited hym And I my selfe haue accustomed to vse Nitrum bothe combuste and crude chiefely the spume of it in the lyke effectes Thus much out of Galene also touchyng the qualities of Nitrum The lyke wordes bothe of Sulphure and Nitrum hath Aetius well neare Nowe by theyr authorities you maye easely iudge that neyther these two are corrupters of mannes bodye eyther inwardlye taken or elles outwardlye applyed So that they nothyng agree with the definition of venome Yea Dioscorides Galene and Aetius founde Sulphure and Nitrum so farre from any venomous qualitie that they vsed them as approued and excellent medicines agaynste venome Therefore nother Iohn de Vigo Alphonce nor Brunswicke shall bee able by any approued authour olde or newe to proue that the simples entrynge into the composition of the vsuall pouder are venomous excepte they wyll affirme the Cole to bee venome whiche were to ridiculous seynge that women with chylde or those whyche labour with that sickennesse whiche is called Pica and also children dayly eate coles without danger Furthermore daylye experience showeth the vse of Sulphure to be profitable For it is a common practise to geue it in mylke to chyldren vexed with wormes And as for gonnepouder it selfe in defect of other medicines I haue put of it in these woundes to drye excicate to the great comfort of the Pacient And therfore it is not in mixture cōposition venomous but medicinable hathe in hym the vertues abstersiue desiccatiue Neyther in those that are wounded with shotte of this pouder doe you see anye of those accidents to folowe whiche are as inseperable in venomous shotte Although Alphonsus Ferrius woulde that putrefaction corrosion vlceration corruption shoulde bee the proper accidentes in venomous woundes As who should saye that perspiration letted of hote moyste humours there folowed not putrifaction or that there appeared not in vlcers corrosion called thereof vlcera phagedenica Howe aptly therefore doeth he applie these as proper accidents in venomed woundes when they are founde in moore then an hundred diseases I doe make him selfe Iudge Furthermore the cure it selfe of these woundes agreeth with those that bee contused brosed without the addition of any medicine or alexipharmacon against venome yea Alfonsus himself did litle consider his assertiō when in the curation of woundes made with Gonneshot he forgetteth to vse remedies against venome whiche should be his chiefe and first scope if the wound were as he affirmeth So that it is more cleare then midday that the pouder doeth not receyue any venome through the fyre in shotynge and that also is euident in those that are burnte with pouder for there appeareth no memcion of venome in them And the burnyng is easely cured that with light medicines Another argument that Alfonse bryngeth is that the compounde medicine commeth to the fourth degrée in heate and therefore is denomous so consequently the shote and therefore the wounde with it made But let vs see I praye you the force of this argument Sulphur is hote in the iiij degrée saltpeter hote in the ende of the .ij. degrée Nowe in the cōposition there is put one part of sulphur x. parts of saltpeter one parte of cole the cole is colde drie therefore addeth not heate to the composition neither the x. parts of nitrum being but in the ij degrée hote How then shuld this pouder be hote in the .iiij. degrée as for the like example if you put to one part of boyling water .x. parts of water but half so hote will it abate the heate of the one part or make it greater I suppose none is so rude to cōfesse that it will increase the hotenes of the one part But in the waye of disputation I wyll graunte this absurditie What than Wyll he conclude all thyngs that are in the fourth degree whote to bee therefore venomous Then surelye whote yron fyre burnynge coles Pepper Pelitorie and a greate number of healthfull simples shoulde bee numbred amonge venomes True it is that venomes are deadlye in themselues But it doeth not therefore folowe that what so is deadly that same is also venemous this is no true conuersion But leauynge thys as a thynge to manifest to make more wordes of we wyll consider whether the shotte receyue suche heate that it can make an asker in the wounde as they affirme Surelye I in the warres haue asked diuers wounded Souldiours what heate they perceyued in the tyme of the percinge of the shotte Who all answered they felte no heate but a certayne contusion and I my selfe haue presentlye taken vp the Pellet when it hath falne at the marke and felte no heate at all to bee made accompte of But that you shall perfectlye vnderstande and be Iudge your selfe in this case Hange a bagge full of Gonnepouder on a place conuenient than stand so far of as your peece wil shote leauell and shute at the same and you shall see the Gonnepouder to bee no moore set on fyer with the heate of the stone then if you caste a colde stone at it But saye they how happeneth it then that there is an asker in such woundes For ther is neuer asker but cōmeth of Cauterization either actual or potentiall To this I answere that it is no asker for then it were not possible there shoulde be fluxe of bloode in these wounds For Galene sayeth thynges adurent and burnyng doeth staye and staunche bloode But you wyll replye and saye there commeth no great fluxe of blood To whiche I answere the cause of that is the great contusion whiche repelleth the bloode hath so dryed the parte wounded in thrustinge